Dave Warner | Special to PennLive

About Me:

Dave Warner is a veteran Pennsylvania journalist, with experience in newspapers in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Bethlehem He has written for the Patriot-News on such subjects as the growth in the state’s Amish population, the issues surrounding Pennsylvania’s auto inspection program, and the philosophies of some of the state’s leading think tanks. He now lives in suburban Philadelphia, where he is a correspondent for a major news wire service.

WELLSBORO – In a picturesque town characterized by its tree-lined, gas-lit Main Street, the rise and then retrenchment of hydraulic fracturing is a central topic of conversation here, with more to come. People such as hotelier Shawn Bryant, chief executive of the big Penn Wells Hotel in this county seat of Tioga County, said the dusty trucks of gas... Full story »

Put simply, dairy cattle don’t like the heat, and the stress that hotter weather places on them is close to a $1 billion annual problem, according to a national expert, Professor Robert Collier. Full story »

Winters are getting warmer, statewide, says the report and the number of summer days over 90 degrees is increasing. The report predicts that those trends will continue through 2039, with an increase in annual temperatures of 2.5 degrees, at least a doubling of the over-90 degree days, and far less snow in the state. Full story »

Experts at a prominent nonprofit group and the Environmental Protection Agency have spelled out what the rest of this century might look and feel like in Pennsylvania as the climate changes. PennLive/The Patriot-News is going to bring that to you over the next several days, along with insights from experts, and the thoughts of skeptics. Full story »

They’re the Harrisburg area’s think tanks, not as well known as some of national names such as the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution, but active at the state capital and elsewhere, nonetheless. Full story »